Primers – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Mon, 01 Aug 2022 20:22:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://lpeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-LPE_Favicon_512px_BlackBG-450x450.png Primers – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 The Neoliberal Economics of Climate Change Primer https://lpeproject.org/primers/the-neoliberal-economics-of-climate-change%ef%bf%bc/ Fri, 22 Jul 2022 13:22:03 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?post_type=primers&p=7243 This primer aims to provide an overview of key literature addressing how neoliberal economic analysis currently affects climate policy and how we might move beyond such analyses. After a brief introduction connecting neoliberalism and capitalism to the current climate crisis, the primer covers how neoliberal economists model climate change, with a focus on discount rates, uncertainty and risk...

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]]> The Progressive Tradition Primer https://lpeproject.org/primers/the-progressive-tradition-primer/ Wed, 14 Oct 2020 16:41:55 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?post_type=syllabi&p=4687 An LPE Reading List and Introduction to the Progressive Tradition. The Progressive Era was a period of political and social reform broadly spanning the late 19th century and the early 20th century. It challenged concentration of private power in the Gilded Age, calling for increased social control over business and the economy. The progressives had significant and long-lasting influences on...

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]]> Neoliberalism Primer https://lpeproject.org/primers/neoliberalism-an-lpe-reading-list-and-introduction/ Mon, 10 Aug 2020 21:27:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?post_type=syllabi&p=4273 An LPE Reading List and Introduction to Neoliberalism. What is “neoliberalism”? What sorts of institutions and ways of thinking characterize the “neoliberal era”? How might law reflect commitments of neoliberalism in different domains—in, for example, employment discrimination, criminal law, international trade, or welfare reform? This introduction offers a broad overview ofthe concept and the...

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]]> Legal Realism Primer https://lpeproject.org/primers/legal-realism-an-lpe-reading-list-and-introduction/ Sun, 09 Aug 2020 21:31:04 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?post_type=syllabi&p=4275 An LPE Reading List & Introduction to Legal Realism. Legal realism was a movement in legal thought that began, roughly, in the late 19th century and flourished alongside Progressivism in the first decades of the 20th. It challenged formalist laissez-faire approaches to the law and called for a jurisprudence more consciously attuned to social realities and empirical research. Since then...

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